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VOL. XXVI. No. 17
Hy International Labor News Service.
Washington, D. C.—A decision
twinging self-employers within the
Held of application of international
labor conventions has just been ren
dered by the permanent court of in
tenrational justice, commonly called
the world court. It is of greatest
importance in connection with the
Work
of the international
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Matter Goes Before Court
While the majority of the members
of the governing body of the Inter
national labor organization were of
the opinion that self-employers were
included in the intent of the conven
tion, the employers' representatives
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World Court Backs Labor
On Agreement Prohibiting
Night Work in Bakeries
labor
organ­
isation, says the Washington branch
of the international labor office.
The seventh session of the Interna
tional Labor Conference adopted a
draft convention prohibiting night
Work
in bakeries. Employers' organ
izations raised the question of the ap
plication of the terms of the conven
tion to slef-employers. It was their
contention that small bakeries, or
home baking establishments, could not
be held to be within the scope of the
regulations when the owner himself
was the baker and that, therefore,
these would afford serious competi
tion to larger establishments where
the bakers were hired employes, mak
ing ratification and application of the
convention practically impossible.
REMOVAL NOTICE
Thad S. Brown, Funeral Director, has moved his
business and residence from 9th and Heaton to
10th and Dayton Sts.
Phone 2134
MARTLEY'S
Clearance Sale
NOW IN FULL SWING
Unusual Values
In MEN'S AND BOYS' SHIRTS
PANTS, UNDERWEAR
SUMMER SUITS
STiRAWHATS
SPORT SHIRTS
CAPS AND
HETTER FOR LESS*
formerly The RED TRUNK
211 High Street Rentschier Bldg.
ROBT. A. FALLERT, Vice-President
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Saturday Specials
FRESH SHOULDER RIBS
Per pound ..
challenged the decision and it was de
cided to appeal to the world coutt for
a decision. The Council of the League
of Nations placed the matter before
the court at The Hague, Holland.
Hearings were held June 8 and 29
Employers presented data and memo
randa prepared by French, English
and Swiss authorities. The Interna
tional Federation of Trade Unions
presented a fully documented memo
randum and were represented by a
well known Dutch lawyer. The In
ternational Federation of Christian
Unions presented a memorandum
through their secretary.
The decision which has been made
by the court is in accord with the
majority opinion of the governing
body, to the effect that the conditions
of the convention are applicable to
self-employers as well as employes.
Decision Is Important
While the convention on which this
question was raised is itself u minor
one, affecting a limited number of
persons, the decision based thereon
is of the greatest importance. It
establishes the applicability of labor
conference decisions to home indus
tries as represented by the self-em
ployer, and sets aside an obstacle
which, apparently, had been placed in
the road of progress of international
labor legislation, to make ratification
and application of such draft conven
tions extremely difficult.
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By International Labor News Service.
Washington, D. C— Railroads are
making perhaps the largest single
contribution this year to the general
prosperity, steady factory operation,
good wages and strong buying power
of the nation. Lines of distribution
between manufacturers and mer
chants have been shortened by quicker
and more regular freight service, and
the speculative element in buying and
selling is curtailed.
There is intelligent distribution of
cars over the whole country, brought
about through the foresight of ship
pers in making known their prospec
tive car needs well in advance, and
the co-ordinated* and unified effort of
the railroads through the car service
division at Washington in the dis
tribution of cars. This service is
making possible the balance between
production and consumption.
Former Complaints No Longer Heard
The result is that complaints of in
adequate car supply, idle time at the
factories, unemployment of workers,
and breakdown in the performance of
the railroads have largely disappear
ed.
Demands upon the railroads ai'e far
in excess of what they were five years
ago. Markets are larger and trade
channels wider. Standards of living
are higher and individual require
ments are greater. The country is
consuming more goods.
The average time of haul of a load
ed box car has been reduced four
fifths in these five years, with the re
sult that one car is doing the work of
five. The country is doing a bigger
business on less money, because the
dollars are turning over faster, and
one is doing the work of four or five
a few years ago.
Service Shows Big Improvement
Since 1914 the railroads have in
creased their freight service by 36
per cent, their average car load by 16
per cent, and their average train load
by nearly 40 per cent. They have
poured over $6,000,000,000 into new
tracks and terminals, larger locomo
tives, more capacious freight cars and
larger and safer passenger cars. The
result is safer travel for the passen
ger, and more expeditious and ade
quate movement for the ton of
freight.
Factories are profiting from better
railroad service through more stable
production and their employes through
more steady work. Waste is being
cut down everywhere, with the result
as described by the Philadelphia
Girard National Bank that "American
industries can pay high wages, pro
duce at lower costs, and still make
larger profits."
Gain in Efficiency Curbs Speculation
Carshortage and railroad conges
tion in the past has made it necessary
for manufacturers and merchants to
carry immense stocks of raw materi
als and goods, and to draw heavily
upon their credit resources at the
banks. Costs of business have in
creased under such conditions, and
prices have usually climbed to exces
sive heights. Speculators have ap
peared and waxed fat in pyramiding
Greatly Improved Service
Brings Steady Factory Work
Helps All Lines of Industry
Innocence Abroad
3.
Railroads' Gain in Efficient Operation
Big Factor in Maintaining Prosperity
the prices of necessary commodities.
The improvement in the railroad serv
ice has increased the buying power
of the family pocketbook by millions
of dollars, and curbed the speculator.
Manufacturers are carrying smaller
stocks of materials, and adjusting
their outputs more closely to market
demands, with steadily debreasing
costs of manufacture. Production at
the factories, and work in other in
dustries dependent upon railroad serv
ice, has been stabilized, with steadier
employment and better wages, and the
losses of business brought down to a
lower point.
Auto Factories Buy as Needed
Automobile factories which a few
years ago carried supplies of raw ma
terials sufficient to meet their needs
for three or four months ahead, are
now carrying from one to three weeks'
supply. One great automobile plant
at Detroit is unloading raw materials
from the freight cars in the morning
and shipping them away as finished
motor cars in the evening. It has
less than a seven days' supply of any
of its materials on hand.
The first rule in the code of railroad
efficiency is that the stationary box
car must not be used as a wai'ehouse.
At the same time, however, the mov
ing box car is becoming the warehouse
of the nation. Distant private ware
houses where factories unloaded their
finished products for later distribu
tion in the adjacent markets are fall
ing into disuse. The railroads are re
moving the need for them.
Quick Shipments to Big Stores
Department stores have reduced
their reserve stock of goods by hun
dreds of thousands of dollars, and de
pend upon the railroads for daily or
weekly shipments from the factories.
There is faster "turn-over" of goods,
with less shop wear and deteriora
tions. Customers are getting better,
values, and the stores have less risk
from price fluctuations in the open
markets.
No longer does a merchant try to
carry a whole season's supply of
goods at one time. He is selling en
tirely new goods, and providing the
factories with an instant market for
their daily outputs. Retailers are
closer to their markets and to current
prices, and the old custom of placing
"advance orders" in long anticipation
of future needs has fallen into disuse.
Quick deliveries and quick sales are
the bases upon which merchants are
doing business.
Price levels have been removed
from chaos and uncertainty, and com
petitive conditions established on a
normal basis.
Better Railroads Hefoing Credit
Improved credit and business sta
bility is having its effect upon the
financial structure and the banking
houses. With a decrease in the vol
ume of loss and more prompt pay
ment of bills, interest rates and
money charges have gone downward.
Efficient and dependable movement
of goods has been a vital factor in
contributing to the "easy" credit and
banking conditions.
Car shortages in recent years have
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HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 6,1926 ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
been one of the largest sources of eco
nomic waste. Idle factories and un
employed workers, or restricted mar
kets and insufficient supplies of goods
caused by delays on the railroads,
have wasted wealth and productive
energy, and brought losses to every
neighborhood.
The net result of good transporta
tion service is steady employment,
better wages, and a stronger buying
power of the people. The economic
waste represented by car shortage and
terminal congestion in the past is be
ing translated into dollars in the
pockets of every man.
All Industry is Benefitting
As a consequence the business and
industry of the country is more effec
tively utilizing its resources and the
supply of money, getting larger
values and returns, operating fac
tories more regularly, and paying bet
ter
By International Labor News Service.
Chicago.—There will be no strike
of the 4,500 union job printers of
Chicago this summer, the employers,
through the Franklin Association,
finally having made a compromise
offer which the executive council of
the International Typ^raphical Union
considered it advisable for the mem
bers of Chicago Typographical Union
No. 16 to accept.
The members of the local union ac
cepted the new wage scale at a spe
cial meeting by a vote of 1,062 to 169.
Wages Are Raised
The new scale was effective Juiy
26 and provides for $3 a week raise
to both day and night forces, 44 hour?
to constitute a week's work for day
and night shifts, the contract to run
for three years. Two years hence, or
on and after July 16, 1928, night
forces will be granted the 40-hour
week, or five nights of eight hours
each.
The new scale with the increase now
is as follows: Hand men, day, $54 a
week night, $58. Operators and ma
chinists, day, $55.40 night, $59.40.
Third shifts will receive the regular
night scale, but will work only 40
hours per week. Price and a half for
firSt three hours of overtime and
double price after that. Double price
for Saturday afternoons and holidays.
The prevailing rate for linotype op
erators in Chicago has been $60 a
week for several years past, with
many men receiving much more than
that.
BARBERS TO ARBITRATE
Duluth, Minn.—After a one-day
strike, barbers secured a $30 weekly
guarantee. Other issues will be re
ferr^d to arbitration
TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY SALE
Just twenty years ago, George Krebs purchased half interest of the Haber
bosch-Funk Company, then located in the Rentschier Building.
Shortly after, the firm moved into the Odd Fellows Building on South Third
Street.
Today, we have our home at Third and Court Street where we will always be
pleased to show you the latest designs in Furniture, Rugs, Stoves, e+c.
For the next few weeks we will celebrate our Twentieth Anniversary and
Will
share profits with our many customers.
SEE OUR 4-PIECE BEDROOM SUITE FOR
$
179
Chicago Union Job Printers
Accept Compromise Offer And
Avert Danger of Big Strike
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K-R-E-B-S
THIRD AND COURT STREET
Everything Marked In Plain Figures
To Return Assessments
The sum of $210,000 in the war
chest of Typographical Union No. 16,
raised throughout a 5 per cent assess
ment on the earnings of the 5,500
members of the organization over a
period of 18 weeks, beginning March
15 last, will be returned to those who
contributed to the fund as soon as
Secretary-Treasurer Bryant L. Beech
er and his office force have computed
the individual accounts and have writ
ten the checks.
The big thing at issue in this con
troversy was the 40-hour week for
night shifts. Various scales commit
tees of Typographical Union No. 16
have been battling the employers for
this concession for several years, but
the employers have all along stead
fastly refused to concede the point.
They have been willing to discuss at
most anything except shorter hours.
Some Dissatisfaction
Men working on night shifts are
not altogether satisfied that they
must wait two years to do away with
the irksome duty of going to work
around noon on Saturady, four or
five hours before the regular starting
time, still fatigued from the previous
night's work, in order to complete
the week. President William J.
Hedger, of the local union, told the
members at the special meeting, how
ever, that the executive council, head
ed by President James M. Lynch and
Secretary-Treasurer John W. Hays,
would not grant strike sanction in the
face of the offer made by the bosses
for a peaceful settlement.
WANT RIGHT TO PICKET
Toronto, Ontario.—Dominion trade
unionists are asking that peaceful
picketing be legalized through an
amendment to the criminal code.
J. II. Iu Kois
Kindly aolieita your rot* and anpporl for
COUNTY
TREASURER
Subject to the decision of the Democratic
Primary to be held Anft. lO, 1926
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